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Re: Off season Rumors and Speculation

The point thing came up in his second year, he forced Memphis to play him at the point in the summer league and didn't work too well, is not something that just came up with.

Yes, I remember that. I just posted something incredibly similar to this post. As I recall, after that catastrophe, it was shelved indefinitely, and has now resurfaced during his free agency as a possibility for spot minutes.

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Yes, I remember that. I just posted something incredibly similar to this post. As I recall, after that catastrophe, it was shelved indefinitely, and has now resurfaced during his free agency as a possibility for spot minutes.

I remember him playing the point with the second unit at times, he is not perfect but he is not that bad either.

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I remember him playing the point with the second unit at times, he is not perfect but he is not that bad either.

Did he? I think in spot minutes, he would be fine at the point. I think he is a point guard every bit as much as Austin Rivers is, and apparently that is what New Orleans is thinking with Rivers--that he can be a point guard. Happy trucking with that one NOLA.

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Did he? I think in spot minutes, he would be fine at the point. I think he is a point guard every bit as much as Austin Rivers is, and apparently that is what New Orleans is thinking with Rivers--that he can be a point guard. Happy trucking with that one NOLA.

He can be a point guard in the same way that Monta Ellis is a PG. IOW, he can pass but he's no PG.

As much as I like OJ Mayo, he's a little redundant with George Hill on the team. I don't think he'll start over Paul George so unless he wants to come off the bench, he's or going to sign with the Pacers.

Ultimately, I think that's why B.Roy and Crawford passed on the Pacers. They want to go somewhere they can have a chance to start. My guess is that Mayo will sign with Dallas or Phoenix where he can play plenty of minutes.

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Its not as much being "benched", more so Memphis starting arguably the best perimeter defender in the league in Tony Allen, as they should.

To add to your point, it balances a team out to bring a very good shooter/scorer off the bench. James Harden comes off the bench for OKC, and nobody hates on him. See also J.Terry, M.Ginobili, J.Crawford, etc.

A LOT of teams do this. So it shouldnt be seen as a knock on Mayo. Whether he starts or not, I bet he finshes most games.

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To add to your point, it balances a team out to bring a very good shooter/scorer off the bench. James Harden comes off the bench for OKC, and nobody hates on him. See also J.Terry, M.Ginobili, J.Crawford, etc.

A LOT of teams do this. So it shouldnt be seen as a knock on Mayo. Whether he starts or not, I bet he finshes most games.

This. And it's not going to hurt Paul to have competition for his starting job. Some nights he just plain stinks. Maybe it would light a fire under him.

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82games.com keeps track of what percentage of each position's available minutes that individual players use. Basically, each position has 3,936 available minutes in an 82-game schedule, so, for example, if a player plays 394 minutes at center, he'll be listed as taking up 10% of his team's center minutes.

Anyway, according to their numbers, Mayo's never played a significant number of minutes at point guard. The most time he's spent there was about 7.2 mpg in the 2010-11 season. The results look pretty bad.

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The Grizzlies have agreed in principle with restricted free agent Marreese Speights on a two-year contract, per a source with knowledge of the negotiations.

Speights, who had a strong first season with the Grizzlies after being acquired in the wake of Zach Randolph's early-season knee injury, first hinted at the new deal on Twitter tonight, saying only that he'd be back with the Grizzlies this season. A source confirmed a two-year deal with a starting salary “close” to Speights' qualifying offer of $3.8 million. Depending on the exact starting salary, Speights' deal should be in the $7-$8 million range. The second year of the deal is a team option.

Re: Off season Rumors and Speculation

Mike Wells ‏@MikeWellsNBA
For Pacers fans panicking over B Roy going to Minny, OJ Mayo has and is still at top of the list for Indy

Oh man. Watch us make an overpaid bid for OJ freaking Mayo.

I've been the one preaching "wait for July 11 before freaking out", but I seriously don't like the trend of Mike Wells' tweets. I don't think much of Wells' opinion/insights, but his inside info has proven to be accurate in the past.

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I've been the one preaching "wait for July 11 before freaking out", but I seriously don't like the trend of Mike Wells' tweets. I don't think much of Wells' opinion/insights, but his inside info has proven to be accurate in the past.

We're going to let Roy walk, give Mayo 7+ million a year and chase Kaman's old no defense empty stat sheet *** for 8 figures. And Walsh and Pritchard shouldn't stomp on that flaming bag on their porch.

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I've been the one preaching "wait for July 11 before freaking out", but I seriously don't like the trend of Mike Wells' tweets. I don't think much of Wells' opinion/insights, but his inside info has proven to be accurate in the past.

True, this franchise could be in for another disastrous season full of mediocrity if Roy is not re-signed. Wells doesn't make things sound very promising either. I think getting Mayo for the right price is a good move for the team, not re-signing Roy could hurt our fan base a lot.

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Sorry, but I've never seen much about Mayo that says great shot creation or point guard skills. He seems to me to be similar to Hill, George and Granger: Good shooter, can make some nice drives, but lacking in a creative midrange game.

There's nothing about adding Mayo that would help this team where it itches. I'd rather have taken Brandon Roy, who could be a real difference maker, and risk the 70 percent chance he'd be a flop.

My only hope now is Imawhat's comment that maybe this is setting us up to trade George or Granger or Hill for a truly helpful part.

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Re: Off season Rumors and Speculation

The story goes that Mayo's people kept yammering about how OJ should be playing point guard. So then one summer league, Memphis said okay, come to summer league and play the point guard position, mostly to shut up his "people". He did and was horrific at it by multiple reports. This was the story at the time, I have no idea how true it is.

I think OJ would be happy to have the ball in his hands, which if he's a guy who would fill Barbosa's role, he would be, here.